The driver or owner of a vehicle used in conveying animals, poultry or fish or parts thereof, which the driver or owner has reason to believe died of a communicable disease, shall immediately after unloading the animals, poultry or fish or parts thereof cause the vehicle bed, tank, wheels, canvasing and covers to be disinfected with a solution of at least one (1) part of creosol dip to four (4) parts of water or with some other equally effective disinfectant approved by the department.
History: Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 47, sec. 14.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 263.130

  • Animals: include all members of species equine, ovine, bovine, porcine, feline, canine, lapin and avian. See Kentucky Statutes 263.010
  • Communicable disease: includes hog cholera, brucellosis, leptospirosis, anthrax, black leg, catarrhal influenza in cattle, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, foot and mouth disease or aphthous fever, glanders, hemorrhagic septicemia, maladie du coit or dourine, mange of cattle, necrobacillosis and foot rot in sheep, hydrophobia, rinderpest, scabies in cattle, Texas tick or southern cattle fever, tuberculosis or any other disease proclaimed by the board to be of a transmissible character. See Kentucky Statutes 263.010
  • Department: means the Department of Agriculture. See Kentucky Statutes 263.010
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
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